"The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire."

-- Tim Wu

#Blessing Quotes #Information Quotes #Empires Quotes

“Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.”
“I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I canâ€™t imagine what my school friends must have thought was going on because I was wandering around in some kind of dream. I felt as though my insides had been taken out which is, I now realize, the right feeling.”
“Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.”
“There's a conscious decision to everything I do.”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.”
“As I was smoothing on the last handful across the top of my thigh, I noticed I had company. Lewus was standing there watching me, eyes half-closed but not in the least sleepy. He'd put on his blue jeans, but nothing else... very sexy. I couldn't help but take in the view.”

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